drop down list missing in IE?

I was asked today by one of the moderators on the forum about a piece of functionality that is missing after upgrading from version 8 to version 9.

When you are within a topic which has multiple pages at the top right and bottom right of the posts there are links to the different pages.

using Firefox 2 you see the following : Page [drop down selector box to all pages] 1 2 3 20 > (where 1 2 3 20 and > are links to those specific pages)

using I.E 6 and 7 you don't see the drop down selector box so you see : Page 1 2 3 20 >

is there a reason for this as it makes it a pain to jump to a specific page within the topic if using i.e

I've no idea if this is intentional and if it is i'd like to know why and how I could resolve it (i'm assuming its something to do with the browser detection?)

Thanks Bruce appreciate the fast response.
I do have a slight problem in that quite a few users are unable to install browsers due to accessing from work or educational facilities. Would it be easy to hack this, so that it did display? I'm assuming the control is within the page and is just hidden based on browser settings?

right ok, that's fine. thank you for taking the time.